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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

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As the great cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker said, “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.” The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online ...more

Thin Girls

by Diana Clarke

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Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

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“Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

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“In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing. —Lucille Clifton”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

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